cursor-cli

A configuration overlay for Cursor Agent, the command-line coding agent used with Cursor. It points the command-line tool and Cursor editor to shared project instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up or maintaining the Cursor Agent command-line integration.
Why use it?
It keeps Cursor's command-line and editor behavior connected to the project's common hooks, tools, skills, and agents.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/wyattowalsh/agents/cursor-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wyattowalsh/agents

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 71 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 71 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00071 $0.00071
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00036
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00014
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00007

Measured yesterday against content hash 939ee65b281a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursor-cli scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.cursor/rules/cursor-cli.mdc · 9 lines

What it actually says

Cursor Agent CLI

Follow instructions/cursor-cli-global.md for the agent / cursor-agent CLI overlay. The editor also loads this rule; shared hooks, MCP, skills, and agents stay on the Cursor adapter.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 9 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 939ee65b281a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cursor-cli is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository wyattowalsh/agents (5 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.